The meaning of Ondine

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Ondine is a mythological water sprite.

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Ondine is also the title of a play written in 1938 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, based on the 1811 novella Undine by the German Romantic Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, that tells the story of Hans and Ondine.

Hans is a knight-errant who has been sent off on a quest by his betrothed. In the forest he meets and falls in love with Ondine, a water-sprite who is attracted to the world of mortal man.

The subsequent marriage of these people from different worlds is shown to be of unavoidable folly, but also turns comical and enchanting, en route to the eventual dissolution. Ondine is considered by some to be Giraudoux's finest work.

This would be a good play for the College of the Arts to put on and/or a good movie for the campus theater to feature. Know the mythology of your campus.

 

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The meaning of Neuberger

U.S. Senator from Oregon Richard L. Neuberger

Born in Multnomah County, near Portland December 26, 1912, died in Portland March 9, 1960; interment in Beth Israel Cemetery. Attended public schools in Portland. Graduate of the University of Oregon in 1935. An author and reporter correspondent for the New York Times 1939-1954.

Member, State house of representatives 1941-1942. Commissioned a WWII lieutenant and later a captain in the United States Army 1942-1945. Member, State senate 1949-1954. Elected Democrat to the United States Senate and served from January 3, 1955, until his death March 9, 1960. One of the key people instrumental in transforming fledgling Portland State College into a modern university.

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Additional information: http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/entry/view/neuberger_richard_1912_1960_/

Quick video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVE6P98RaO8

 

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The meaning of Shattuck

Oregon Supreme Court Judge Erasmus D. Shattuck

Shattuck (December 31, 1824-July 26, 1900) was an American politician and judge in the state of Oregon. He served as the 7th Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court serving from 1866 to 1867. He served two separate terms on the Oregon's high court, was a district attorney, and a member of the Oregon Constitutional Convention in 1857.

He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1848. Then in 1853 he immigrated to what was then the Oregon Territory via the Isthmus of Panama. He arrived on February 15, 1853, and began teaching at Oregon City College and the Clackamas County Female Seminary until 1855. That year he began teaching at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. From 1855 to 1856 he served as Washington County School Superintendent.

In 1861, he was a district attorney, and from 1862 to 1863 was the United States Attorney for Oregon. Shattuck was then elected in 1862 to the Oregon Supreme Court. During this time on the court he served as chief justice from 1866 to 1867. He resigned from the bench in December 1867 and was replaced by William W. Upton. Shattuck was then elected a second time to the court in 1874 to replace Upton, and then left the bench in 1878 at the end of his term. After his time on the high court, Shattuck returned to the bench as a circuit court judge from 1886 to 1898.

Shattuck served as a trustee for Portland Academy and was one of the founders of the Portland Library. In Portland, both Shattuck School and Road are named for him. Shattuck Hall was built as an elementary school to serve Portland’s children beginning in 1915. Then in 1969, Portland State University acquired the building.

PSU received $13.6 million in deferred maintenance funding to completely renovate Shattuck Hall. After an 11 month renovation during 2007 and 2008, the building reopened September 29th, 2008 for Fall term classes. Today, the building houses the College of Architecture as well as 11 general purpose classrooms.

 

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The meaning of Cramer

John F. Cramer, First President of Portland State College

(1899-1967). He majored in chemistry at Willamette University, receiving his bachelor’s degree in 1919 and master’s degree in 1920. Cramer then entered the field of education and for over two decades held positions as teacher, principal, and superintendent across Oregon, including serving as head of the state’s second largest school district in Eugene in 1937. During this period of administrative experience and growth, Cramer attained two more degrees, his Master of Education in 1932 and Doctor of Education in 1937, both at the University of Oregon. (He was the first student to receive a Doctor of Education degree at the University of Oregon.) His expertise in administration was recognized in 1943 when he was chosen president of the Oregon Education Association, and in 1944 when he was chosen by the chancellor of the Oregon State System of Higher Education and state board to be dean of the state’s General Extension Division.

In his position as dean during 1946-1955, Cramer served as senior administrator and as Stephen Epler’s superior officer, overseeing the formation of Vanport Extension Center, Portland State Extension Center, and Portland State College. Initially considered by some to be too conservative in promoting the creation of Portland State College, Cramer, as one faculty member exclaimed, “caught the fever” and became a strong advocate (e.g., chaired an advisory committee of citizens and educators in 1952 that recommended Portland State provide undergraduate four-year programs to prepare elementary and secondary teachers).

In 1955, when the state board chose Cramer to be the first president of Portland State College, he was a veteran of the Oregon public school system, well known statewide for his role in heading the General Extension Division, favored for the position by the state board (over Stephen Epler), and was viewed by many as a natural choice for the job. Desiring the new position, Cramer stepped down as General Extension dean to head Portland State, leading to a double ceremony dedicating the College and inaugurating Cramer as president in October 1955.

But Cramer served as president for only three years. In 1958, presumably weary of the constant and overwhelming administrative challenges, he stepped down to become a professor of education. Cramer found teaching to be very enjoyable following his many years in administration. He was passionate in his teaching role, worked hard, took his new position seriously, and gladly assumed various administrative responsibilities when called upon by his successor and the head of education. Cramer resigned in 1967 due to ill health and, in his remembrance, State Hall (Portland State’s first new building) was renamed Cramer Hall in 1969.

 

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The meaning of Lincoln

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln had no middle initial. Oregon cast its three electoral votes for Lincoln in the 1860 election. Lincoln City on the Oregon Coast is named in his honor.

Constructed in 1911, Lincoln Hall was originally Portland School District's Lincoln High School. The architectural firm Whitehouse & Fouilhoux designed Lincoln in a classical revival style with high Corinthian columns around the South Park Blocks entry, balcony projections and Broadway false relief panels. Lincoln became PSU's first classroom building when the University moved to the South Blocks in 1953. In 1975, the auditorium was renovated and the stage was expanded on the Broadway side, to create the present Lincoln Performance Hall. In 2010, upon completion of a two-year, $30 M renovation, Lincoln Hall was returned to service, having become PSU's first LEED Plaltinum Award building.

PSU's Lincoln Hall was the first building the University occupied when it moved to Downtown Portland in 1953. Lincoln Hall is now the lively center of campus performing arts, housing the Schools of Music, and Theatre & Film, including Lincoln Recital Hall on the basement level, Lincoln Performance Hall which seats 475 and Lincoln Studio Theater on the first floor level, as well as studios, labs and practice rooms.

 

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The meaning of Smith

Portland State University Student Michael J. Smith

Michael J. Smith is seated leftmost among the 1965 PSU College Bowl Team, the photo taken at the television studio in New York City. In 1965, their record-breaking achievements made them statewide heroes. They’re remembered for their knowledge and perseverance, as driven young men whose accomplishments helped steer PSU in a new direction.

On March 7, 1965, the Portland State College Bowl team shook Oregon to its core when they won their fifth straight match academically to become champions on the nationally televised college trivia game show, GE College Bowl. The victory, retiring them as undefeated champions, was a substantial step towards overcoming the university’s false image as a “flunk-out” school for failed University of Oregon and Oregon State University students.

The students returned statewide heroes and received proclamations from Governor Mark Hatfield and the legislature. At PSC (then Portland State College), they received letterman’s jackets and, eventually, the Smith Memorial Student Union was named in honor of team member Michael Smith who was battling cystic fibrosis at the time.

Relatively new and grossly under-funded in the early ‘60s, PSU was in dire need of a revamped image to convince the state and prospective students that it was not a school for the academically mediocre. Today, their victories are considered a key major factor in the improvement of that image and the legislature’s 1965 decision to fund PSU's first graduate program. On March 26, 1965, Time Magazine published an article observing the College Bowl’s role in PSU’s various improvements.

“College Bowl was really a life-changing thing at the time,” recalls Columbia Law graduate Jim Westwood, team captain, recalling the shock and joy of sudden national notoriety. “There was always this feeling that we needed to prove ourselves,” explained Clarence Hein, editor-in-chief of the Vanguard in 1965. “[The wins] gave everybody a sense of pride … it really was a[n infusion] of legitimacy.”

After responding to an ad in a spring 1964 issue of the Vanguard, Westwood and co-bowlers Robin Freeman, Larry Smith and Michael Smith, along with alternates Al Kotz, Marv Foust, Jim Cronin, Doug Hawley and Jim Watts, joined coach Ben Padrow for nine months of intensive preparation and anxious waiting as an alternate team, to be called in once a team won five games and retired as champion.

The team finally got its chance when Lawrence University retired. After months of waiting with no idea of when or if they would play, they were suddenly swept off to New York City to compete against the University of San Francisco.

Coached by Speech Professor Ben Padrow, they went on to five consecutive victories, all by over 100 points, most by over 200 points and some by more than 300 points. They retired champions. Their 1,725-point total set a new record for total points achieved and ended up becoming the fourth highest all-time.

Padrow worked relentlessly with the students, building on their preexisting knowledge, developing their speed with the buzzers and familiarizing them with the game show’s format. After College Bowl, Padrow served a stint as then-mayor Bud Clark’s campaign manager, coached the PSU forensics team and taught speech at the university until retirement. “I give him all the credit for all we were,” Westwood said.

Michael Smith’s battle with cystic fibrosis serves as an example of determination and perseverance against heavy odds. Swimming upstream against the current. “He was courageous, Lord knows he was courageous,” said Westwood. “He was my closest friend at the time.”

Though a tale of raw courage, the topic of Michael Smith’s illness was left virtually untouched by Press and other media. “It was not really widely known,” said Hein. “I sensed he wanted to live a regular life.”

Westwood remembers his friend as the team’s sharpest pundit, with a sense of determination that he admires to this day. “He had willpower you wouldn’t believe,” said Westwood, “and he kept his sense of humor through it all.” He never missed a match.

Michael Smith graduated from PSU a double-major in English and Psychology. Cystic Fibrosis claimed his life in 1968. The following year, the Oregon State Board of Higher Education renamed the College Center in his honor as a memorial to his spirit of determination, willpower and courageous good humor. This as a legacy to the students, faculty, staff and administrators of Portland State University.

The Michael J. Smith Memorial Student Union Building. A beacon and gathering place for students enlisted in the spirit of overcoming the odds, now and into the future.

 

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The meaning of Stott

Portland State Athletics Benefactor Peter W. Stott

A $1 million donation to Portland State Athletics secured name rights for the Peter W. Stott Center, soon to become Viking Pavilion. Name rights will, in all likelihood, persist for the adjacent Stott Community Field.

Mr. Stott led the charge to make the new athletics arena a reality. The new arena will also provide generous apportionment to academic and student gathering space. Recently apponted by the Oregon governor to the Portland State University Board of Trustees, he has also served as a member of the board of directors of the Portland State University Foundation, member of the Founder's Circle of SOLV, and trustee of the Portland Art Museum.

Mr. Stott also serves on the Board of Directors of Gerding/Edlen Development Company, a Portland-based commercial real estate development firm specializing in mixed-use urban renewal projects and Omega Morgan, one of the largest machinery moving and industrial services companies in the Pacific Northwest. Mr. Stott is a member of the Compensation and Finance Committees of the Board.

Mr. Stott has been president of Columbia Investments, Ltd. since 1983. He has also served as the vice chairman and a principal of ScanlanKemperBard Companies, a real estate private equity firm from 2005 to 2010 and CEO from 2008 to 2010. He was formerly President and CEO of Crown Pacific from 1988 to 2004. Prior to Crown Pacific, Mr. Stott founded Market Transport, Ltd. in 1969, the largest asset-based transportation and logistics services company headquartered in Oregon. Market Transport, Ltd. was acquired in 2006 by UTI Worldwide, a NASDAQ-traded transportation and logistics company.

Recognizing Portland State University as a grossly-undervalued public asset, Mr. Stott has been in the forefront donating his time, talent and treasure to the building up of the university through its athletics programs. What Dr. Fariborz Maseeh is to PSU engineering and Arlene Schnitzer is to PSU Arts, he has been to PSU Athletics. He serves as a Member of the President Advisory Board for Athletics at Portland State University and holds an honorary doctorate from the university.

He also served as a Trustee for Lewis and Clark College, the University of Oregon, the Oregon Chapter of the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame, and the Crater Lake Park National Trust. Mr. Stott also served as a Director for Liberty Northwest Insurance.

 

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The meaning of Gordon:

Child Developmentalist Helen Gordon

Helen Gordon advocated for young children and their right to have quality child care and pre-school throughout her adult life. She directed early childhood programs throughout the region and was one of the founders of Head Start in the state of Oregon. She was dedicated to the establishment of day care and pre-school programs and lobbied at the state and national levels for public funding to support the inclusion of working families and the underprivileged. Helen's campaign included convincing Portland State of the need for childcare on the campus to allow mothers to attend school and have quality care while doing so.

With Helen Gordon's help, in the fall of 1969, work began to implement a center for the care of children to serve the students, faculty, and staff of Portland State College. The committee was formed following a "brief but enlightening" sit-in held at then-President Gregory Wolfe's office at which parents expressed the need for childcare on the campus. In 1971, with $1500 from the student fee committee, Portland State's first childcare opened on Southwest Harrison Street. It was licensed for 30 children, with 176 on the waiting list to get in. By 1973 the enrollment had increased to 78 and the historic Fruit and Flower building, in which the school still remains, was annexed by the college.

In the late 1970's, the mission of the renamed Helen Gordon Child Development Center (HGCDC) was focused on the original intent, providing both a first-rate on-campus child care facility and to serve as Portland State's laboratory pre-school. In this way, the needs of parents in the University community for quality childcare and the desire of the education community to explore child development and teacher training could be satisfied.

In 1986, HGCDC became the first early childhood center in Oregon to be accredited by the National Academy of Early Childhood Programs. That same year the Fruit and Flower building was placed on the National Historic Register. Helen Gordon Center currently enrolls 200 children from a culturally diverse population throughout the Portland metropolitan area. Members of the Helen Gordon family continue the dedication to children's education that Helen herself embodied. Our 2003 expansion and renovation of the historic building provided a much needed next step in a long history of creating a place on the Portland State University campus where families and educators can find common ground in the importance of providing a caring, quality environment for children and adults alike.

While there have been changes over the years in response to family needs and progress in the early childhood professional field, the program has maintained a strong presence on the University campus and within the Portland community. We are fortunate to have a spacious and home-like environment in a building constructed for children's programs in 1928 by the Fruit and Flower Mission. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. In 2003, the Center underwent a renovation and expansion of services to include infants and young toddlers as well as kindergarten programming. Housed on its third floor, the program has also grown to include a Master's specialization in early childhood education and a PSU Remida Center-a repository and learning center for material sustainability in education, the arts and architecture. Students from various departments on campus take academic courses on the third floor and come down to work in the laboratory school for ongoing course activities, research and practice. As PSU continues to grow more expansion of services are bound to add to Helen Gordon Center's longstanding history.

 

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The meaning of Epler:

Portland State University's Founder Stephen E. Epler

World War II Navy veteran Stephen Epler worked for the Oregon State System of Higher Education (OSSHE) as a counselor at the Veterans' Village at Vanport, helping other veterans find school placement and housing. Oregon's colleges and universities were already overcrowded and could not provide appropriate housing for married veterans, many of whom had children. Epler proposed setting up a temporary OSSHE extension campus at Vanport to serve those veterans.

As the founder of the Vanport Extension Center, Epler established the beginning of today's Portland State University.

A graduate of Cotner College in Lincoln, Nebraska, he taught science and coached at the Chester, Nebraska, high school, where he invented six-man football in 1934. In 1936, he moved to New York to pursue advanced studies at Columbia University. In 1940, he became dean of men at Southern Oregon College in Ashland. His Ph.D. was awarded in 1943, with a dissertation on honorary degrees that attracted national attention. He joined the U.S. Navy the same year. After World War II, Epler returned to Oregon and to be named veterans' counselor and moved to Vanport in January 1946.

Epler's proposal for the creation of a Vanport Center of the General Extension Division was approved in March 1946. Within eighty-six days, Epler had secured buildings and assembled a faculty. The Vanport Extension Center opened on June 18, 1946, with 220 students. Epler expected a fall enrollment of 500; 1,410 applied. The need for public higher education in the Portland area was apparent, and Epler began a drive to convert the Center into a four-year college. He ran into immediate opposition from the existing state schools, private colleges, the State Board of Higher Education, and the legislature, but he continued to advocate for the school.

The Vanport Flood on Memorial Day 1948 destroyed the Vanport Extension Center, and Epler found new accommodations for the school that summer at Grant High School. In spite of opposition from the chancellor, his appeal to the State Board of Education to continue the Center for another year was successful. He secured buildings at the unused Oregon Ship Building Corporation site, and the Center moved once again. The motto of the school became "The College That Would Not Die."

For ten years, Epler did everything he could think of to gain support for the new college, including encouraging the Center's students, who, he recorded in his diary, were "working hard on a 4 year college." He organized letter-writing sessions, formed an Advancement Committee, served as the chair of the Portland Commission on Civil Rights, and played golf with civic leaders. He served as president of the Northwest Association of Junior Colleges, of the Pacific Association for Adult Education, and of the Oregon Collegiate Athletic Conference.

In 1952, the Center, now renamed Portland State Extension Center, moved to downtown Portland. Epler was passed over as dean and was demoted to the position of director of the Day Division. "I'm having a hard time getting over" not being named dean, he wrote in his diary. Students and faculty expressed dismay and cooperated in his continuing campaign to give the school four-year status. Public opinion in Portland favored a four-year college, and students who had completed two years at the Center were clamoring for upper-division courses.

Finally, in 1955, the State Board of Education recommended the establishment of Portland State College, although with severe restrictions on curriculum and growth. The legislature authorized the new status, but the State Board passed over Epler as president. "It was a blue day for me," Epler wrote in his diary. With no administrative role in the new college, Epler accepted the presidency of Reedley College in California, where he served for five years. He then served as president of the prestigious College of Marin.

In 1966, the State of California selected Epler to found Ohlone College in Fremont, where he remained until he retired in 1975. During those years he was chair of the Legislative Committee of the California Junior College Association and was on the California Community College Chancellor's Advisory Committee. He also served as president of the Fremont Chamber of Commerce.

Epler was fondly remembered by students who attended the Vanport and Portland Extension Centers, and in 1995, Portland State University honored him in a celebration of the school's origins. PSU feted its founder, dedicated the "Vanport Room," made him a PSU professor emeritus, and named its new dormitory Stephen E. Epler Hall.

Epler died at age 87 on July 12, 1997.

"An educated citizenry is the foundation of democracy. The GI Bill of Rights is perhaps the greatest advancement American democracy and education have made in this century. Vanport College, with its ninety per cent veteran enrollment, is a direct result of this forward step." -- Stephen E. Epler

 

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The meaning of Blumel:

Portland State University's Fifth President Joseph C. Blumel

In the spring of 1974, Portland State University (PSU) inaugurated its fifth president, Joseph Carolton Blumel. The school had just turned twenty-eight years old, having been established in 1946 as an extension center that reported directly to the Oregon State Board of Higher Education. As a university, it was only five years old.

Inaugurations of university presidents are full of pomp, ceremonies, speeches, and colorful regalia, but Joe Blumel’s inaugural was dominated by activities designed to explore the ways the university could reach out to the community. The result was the Vital Partners Declaration endorsed by the university leadership and leaders of Multnomah County and the City of Portland. The declaration, while not intended as such, laid down the foundation for PSU to become a nationally recognized urban university.

Born on March 3, 1928, in Kansas City, Missouri, Blumel graduated from the University of Nebraska with a bachelor of science degree in 1950. After serving honorably in the U.S. Army in Korea, he returned to the University of Nebraska where he obtained a master of arts in economics in 1956. While serving as a faculty member at what was then Portland State College, he obtained his Ph.D. in economics in 1965 from the University of Oregon.

At PSU, Blumel was a faculty member, a dean, a vice president for academic affairs, and the university’s longest serving president. As vice president and president, he guided the institution through its transition from college to university. Under his leadership, the university offered its first doctoral programs and significantly expanded its professional and academic master degrees. He was also instrumental in fostering the academic and outreach programs that enhanced the diversity of the faculty and student body.

As president, Blumel took the helm of the university when higher education in Oregon faced financial hard times. The challenge that often faced him was how to balance mandated budget cuts with the aspirations of a university that had yet to attain maturity and meet the expectations of the community. During his twelve-year tenure, the university suffered numerous budget cuts, but it also established four professional schools (one of which disappeared in the budget cuts of the early 1990s). Today, the College of Urban and Public Affairs, the College of Engineering, and the School of Fine and Performing Arts owe their existence to Dr. Blumel. He also reorganized the divisions of humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences into the larger College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Blumel led the expansion of the campus and oversaw the construction and acquisition of several academic and student housing projects. One of them, Blumel Hall, was named after him in 2008.

While focusing on ties to the local community, Blumel did not ignore international connections. He maintained a longtime connection with Japan’s Hokkaido University in Sapporo and also established ties with China’s Zhengzhou University and Daegu University in Korea.

Blumel was involved with numerous civic, professional, and charitable organizations. He was a member and chair of the Commission on Colleges of the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges and chair of the Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors. He was a member of the board of directors of First Interstate Bank, Kaiser Permanente, and a founding member of Oregon Health Sciences University Advisory Board. His community service covered a diverse list of organizations that included the Oregon Symphony, Portland Art Museum, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Portland Opera, Portland Youth Philharmonic, Portland Chamber of Commerce, Loaves and Fishes, and Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Fund.

Blumel retired from PSU in the fall of 1986 after planting the seeds for another in the long list of academic programs that he championed—architectural education, which after many years is today a reality at PSU. His academic service did not end with his retirement. For several months in 1989, he agreed to serve as interim president of Lewis & Clark College and was a positive force during a period of transition there.

Joe Blumel died in Portland on April 2, 2007, leaving behind his wife of forty-six years, Priscilla Bryant Blumel, and two daughters.

 

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Broadway - You've got the makings of a handy little book here. You might add a section dealing with all the additional buildings that have been added over the past twenty years, with a small box map showing the location of each as you describe it.

 

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The meaning of Maseeh:

PSU Alumnus '80, MS '84 & MIT Doctorate Fariborz Maseeh

Fariborz Maseeh was born in Tehran, Iran, and arrived in Portland, Oregon at the age of 18. He graduated from Portland State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering with honors in Structural Engineering. He then graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Master’s Degree. While there, he performed research in the Department of Aeronautics. Maseeh returned to Portland to assist his family and during that time he returned to PSU and, in 1984, earned another Master's Degree in Applied Mathematics.[3] After his family life was stabilized, he ventured to Boston to earn a Doctorate Degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After receiving his doctorate in 1990, Dr. Maseeh started working as a Senior Research Scientist at a technology start-up firm in Silicon Valley. He resigned after one year to found IntelliSense.

Fariborz found success as a pioneer in the field of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) selling his company IntelliSense in 2000. It became one of the world's fastest-growing MEMS companies. It was twice named to the New England Technology "Fast 50" and the Forbes' "Fast 500."

He also is the founder and managing principal of Picoco LLC, an investment management firm which invests in various assets and manages several proprietary traded hedge funds. Today he oversees the Massiah Foundation, which puts the concept of philanthropic investment into practice. Through the foundation, he has become the largest individual donor to Portland State.

In 2005, he gave $8 million to the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science. He has now also invested $3.9 million in computational science, a discipline that allows researchers to model complex systems such as brain function, regional freeways, even climate change.

Fariborz's investment in computation science will create graduates who can contribute to the well-being of the region, and it allows for industry partnerships that will advance economic development for Portland as well as the rest of the state.

Fariborz describes his desire to give back to Portland State in simple terms. My choice is to help where I was helped, he says. You look for good managers, good operations, and high future potential. PSU has all three. He explains his philanthropic philosophy this way: Invest in good causes for public good just as you invest in any prudent venture.

He is the founder of Kids Institute for Development and Advancement (KiDA), an Irvine, California treatment clinic and education facility for autistic children. He is also the founder of Orbitron LP, a global macro long-short hedge fund. He is the founder and president of The Massiah Foundation, a charitable organization.

He has received numerous awards and honors. He gives generously to the community, to his alma maters and beyond. A most remarkable philanthopist and engineer.

 

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Broadway - You've got the makings of a handy little book here. You might add a section dealing with all the additional buildings that have been added over the past twenty years, with a small box map showing the location of each as you describe it.

Thanks. I would love for RAPS (Retirement Association of Portland State) to do it up in publishable book form in exchange for an honorary lifetime membership.

 

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Fine idea. Have you talked to Charlie White?

 

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Thanks. Haven't. Hoping a little bird will tell. I find it so hard to self-promote.

Right now, I'm having a devil of a time trying to find photos of Branford Price Millar and George C. Hoffman. PSU Archives Online has photos only from 1946-1948.